The members of a national agribusiness chamber (NAC) must actively promote agribusiness and be functional in regard to their objectives and mandates. 

Good governance and clear decision making processes must be guaranteed in any private sector umbrella organization. There must be clear and transparent guidelines, 

Advocacy and policy advice are of high interest to members of agribusiness umbrella organizations who often do not have the time and financial resources to participate in regular and 

Sources of income should be stable and highly diversified and come from multiple sources. The umbrella organization should aim to be financially independent with sufficient earnings

commodity-specific organizations to improve and develop business development services (BDS) for their members. Attractive (payable) BDS are a crucial basis for the recognition and the sound development of an organization

Private agribusiness umbrella organization should initially build its core competencies around a few well selected topics which are of common interest and concerns to the majority of value chain actors/operators